Welcome to the World
of
Georgina Young-Ellis
As an author of twelve novels and one memoir, I explore many genres, including time travel tales, Jane Austen variations, and literary fiction. Join me on adventures through a multitude of places and perspectives.
12
Novels Published
1
Memoir
4
Genres Explored
First Avenue Heartbreak
by Georgina Young-Ellis
Jordan Greene is a young actress, struggling for success, and searching for true love as she navigates the world of sex, drugs, and the East Village in seedy 1980s New York City.
From Georgina Young-Ellis and Jonathan Ellis
A whimsical and honest account of a nine-month journey deep into Mexico. Novelist Georgina Young-Ellis was awarded a Fulbright grant, and randomly placed in a little, out-of-the-way agricultural community in Hidalgo, Mexico, where she taught English at the local university. Having to get around on foot and by local transportation encouraged her and her husband, Jon, to be fully immersed in this adventure of a lifetime. They experienced moments of open-mouthed wonder at the beauty and history of the area, plenty of laughter over surprising cultural differences, and precious times spent with an ever-broadening family of locals, all of whom warmly and sincerely insisted, mi casa es su casa. This is a tale of traveling far only to find that the real destination was what they came to think of as home.
From Meryton Press
1943. World War II has torn the continent since 1939 and tested families, the Bennets included. Elizabeth and Jane nurse wounded soldiers and civilians in a London hospital. The other sisters volunteer as best suits their inclinations. Mr. Bennet rattles about Longbourn. Wickham sniffs about the edges of the estate—and the Bennet daughters.
Even the ever-present threat of death from the skies cannot prepare Jane and Lizzy for the most devastating news. The words one never wishes to hear are delivered by two officers, each scarred by years on the front lines. In the dark days that follow, devotion is tested, and affection blooms.
Kiss Me Good Night, Major Darcy drops Jane Austen’s timeless characters into the midst of the most horrific conflict in human history. Their trail twists and encounters those who would turn sacrifice to their profit. Follow the women of Longbourn as they navigate the rocks and shoals of wartime Great Britain to endure misunderstandings and discover lasting love.
Book One - The Time Mistress Series
A romantic, time-travel adventure set in Jane Austen's England, The Time Baroness is the story of Dr. Cassandra Reilly, a scientist from the year 2120 who embarks upon a journey to England of 1820. Her purpose is to conduct an experiment: living for a year in the guise of a wealthy widow and interacting within the Regency world. Though she has painstakingly prepared for the experience, her unusual ways arouse both ire and interest from her neighbors…and attract an unexpected admirer. Ultimately, circumstances beyond Cassandra’s control plunge her into a dangerous situation, and she learns that people, and love, aren’t always what they seem to be..
Book Two - The Time Mistress Series
Dr. Cassandra Reilly is surprised to find herself time-traveling again, this time to New York of 1853, accompanying the internationally acclaimed artist, Evie Johnston. Evie has funded the trip, explaining that she wishes to meet her ancestors, activists in the Underground Railroad. However, the beautiful painter has another agenda altogether.
When they arrive in the pre-Civil War city, Evie's deception embroils both her and Cassandra in the activities of the abolitionist revolutionaries, a situation fraught with danger, as well as unexpected romance. Cassandra struggles to keep history intact, and to keep herself and Evie from falling victim to a gang of human traffickers. All the while, each woman discovers how the past has a way of becoming all too personal and present, as they both fall under the spell of the time and people they meet.
Book Three - The Time Mistress Series
The Time Contessa is an adventure to Siena, Italy, 500 years into the past and 100 years into the future. Something has gone wrong with an historical timeline, causing a famous painting to disappear from the world’s conscious memory, surfacing only in people’s dreams. Two members of MIT’s Chronology team, Dr. Cassandra Reilly and her colleague Jake, must go to Renaissance Siena to repair the timeline so the artist who painted the portrait of a beautiful woman known as Giuliana will ultimately live to complete it. However, the past holds many pitfalls, both dangerous and romantic, that Cassandra must stay clear of, while trying to prevent Jake falling prey to them as well. The time-travelers’ problems follow them to the future, where love takes such a strong hold it becomes impossible to resist, and past adversaries resurface to create new threats.
Book Four - The Time Mistress Series
Sometimes, time travel isn’t all it’s cracked up to be as James Reilly discovers when he journeys to Elizabethan England to solve a long debated question: Did Shakespeare really write the plays attributed to him? When his investigation leads to nothing but a violent confrontation between him and the Bard, he returns to the future to ask the most renowned time-traveler of the day, who also happens to be his mother, Dr. Cassandra Reilly, to go with him to London of 1598 and use her charms to make inroads where he has failed. Once immersed in the era, Cassandra finds herself becoming intimate with the key players of the time: Shakespeare and his troupe, Queen Elizabeth, Ben Jonson, Robert Cecil, and Edward De Vere - the Earl of Oxford. However, navigating the perils that lie around every corner of London of that day, as well as the whims of the unpredictable queen, makes it a hazardous undertaking, especially when three men are vying to win Cassandra’s heart, and a mysterious presence seems to be stalking her.
Book Five - The Time Mistress Series
In this fifth and final book in The Time Mistress Series, Cassandra must travel to Hollywood, circa 1942, to investigate why criminal and fugitive Nick Stockard mysteriously showed up in a newspaper photo of the era, when she’d thought he’d already died. The only explanation is that he cheated death and time-traveled there, but how and why? Dr. Elton Carver, inventor of the time machine, goes with Cassandra to help her in her hunt for Nick. While in 1942, Cassandra and Elton rub elbows with stars like Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, and Lena Horne, but they also have to deal with the complications of Elton being African American in a segregated and racist Los Angeles—and with the feelings they begin to have for one another.
Popular Jane Austen Variations from Georgina Young-Ellis
Darcy's Awakening
When Darcy and Lizzy meet at the Meryton assembly, Darcy is already engaged to another woman, and Lizzy has suffered the loss of someone she once loved. How will they find their way to each other, with these obstacles, and so many more, standing in their way?
Pemberley Park - The Twelve Days of Christmas
Lizzy and Darcy have been happily married for a year, and family and friends are gathering at Pemberley for the Twelve Days of Christmas, including the notorious brother and sister from Austen's Mansfield Park, Henry and Mary Crawford. Every day of the twelve brings new surprises, some shocking, some wonderful. Romantic liaisons and family drama make for a roller coaster of a holiday season in this Regency Jane Austen variation.
Incandescent
The Elliots are Hollywood Royalty - a family of actors going back three generations. Annie Elliot has been cast to play Elizabeth Bennet in a new movie adaptation of Pride and Prejudice that takes place during the Belle Epoque, circa 1910, with a multi-racial cast. But who will her Mr. Darcy be?
About Georgina Young-Ellis
I started my writing journey in 2007 and never looked back. Fascinated by time travel, it was the first genre I explored, taking my readers from Shakespeare's England to Los Angeles during WWII. Being a huge Jane Austen fan, I then decided to try my hand at writing variations of her work, a fun and rewarding endeavor.
I've lived all around the U.S., and traveled to many places in the world. One of those trips inspired my husband and I to write a memoir of an incredible nine months we spent in Mexico.
Now, I'm writing literary fiction, and find I am captivated by the freedom of creating stories that don't have to fit into a particular genre.
I hope you'll enjoy reading the works you discover on this site as much as I enjoyed writing them!
Contact me
Telephone: +1 917 6176869
E-mail: ginafire@gmail.com
Address: 501 S. Pinto Place, Tucson, 85748, Arizona, United States